Safari Books Online

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2011–2020), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Safari Books Online, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Search is terrible, including quality filtering, making it hard to find good content2020-11-18
Aggressive login modals push seminars and copying text yields broken pasted results2019-12-14
Site is cumbersome and slow to use2018-08-29
Bad UI in the Safari bookstore makes it hard to use2013-09-16
Web reader is so slow that reading is painful2011-08-10